Orshansky District (Russian: Орша́нский райо́н; Meadow Mari: Оршанке кундем, Oršanke kundem) is an administrative[1] and municipal[6] district (raion), one of the fourteen in the Mari El Republic, Russia.

The area of the district is 897 square kilometers (346 sq mi).

[3] Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Orshanka.

[4] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Orshansky District is one of the fourteen in the republic.

[1] It is divided into one urban-type settlement (an administrative division with the administrative center in the urban-type settlement (inhabited locality) of Orshanka) and three rural okrugs, all of which comprise seventy-two rural localities.